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by pak 14y ago
Isn't this exactly what rtm did in 1988? The only difference is that this worm took pains to behave more nicely. Funny to see that the proportion of relatively unsecure devices on the internet has not gone down since that time.
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by pak 14y ago
Assuming I trust Google with all the data and all my users have Google Drive, this looks like a super easy way to make documents created in a web app editable in real time by multiple users. I'm curious about the details though, which would
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Creating animated GIFs with ImageMagick & ffmpeg(tedpak.com)
3 points by pak 14y ago|0 comments
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by pak 14y ago
Could doctors use a gestural interface like this to write templated notes in an EMR on touch devices? Most of the notes that doctors write have repetitive structures. Hence, EMRs like Epic have come up with features like Smart Text, which
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by pak 14y ago
Thanks for reading! And the essay you wrote on this topic is equally interesting. I get what you are saying, and you are right that what I am proposing is innately unscientific. What I am trying to say is that the process of making new sc
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All science is anthropological at the margins(tedpak.com)
2 points by pak 14y ago|4 comments
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by pak 14y ago
Don't have time to work on it now, but it looks like you'll need to recurse while parsing arrays. Right now, only arrays of strings that don't contain commas are handled correctly.
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by pak 14y ago
Who types URLs or looks at them? If you write URLs in an email, print them on a business card, put them on a poster, say them in a conversation, or basically need anybody who isn't already using a web browser to go to your page, you type UR
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by pak 14y ago
then... it won't work? Alternatively, you could make it group writable by yourself and whatever the webserver is running as. Or, if you are using suPHP ( http://www.suphp.org/Home.html ), you won't need to chmod anything.
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by pak 14y ago
The fact that there is no good, canonical guide for doing this in Python is one of the reasons I moved away from it and toward Ruby. With Ruby I had no problems writing and forking gems using the canonical guide ( http://guides.rubygems.or
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Disable the extreme scroll acceleration in Mountain Lion(github.com)
1 points by pak 14y ago|0 comments
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by pak 14y ago
ChromoZoom ( http://chromozoom.org ) uses web workers to offload custom track drawing to a background thread. If all the data processing were done on the main thread, the UI would stall. However, unlike this library, I don't rely on passi
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by pak 14y ago
He also has to be willing to trust that you will actually split what you win after stealing the whole pot. Otherwise, he will worry that you could dupe him and walk away with everything, and then choose to steal.
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by pak 14y ago
relative to the length of each user's arm It's easy to snidely dismiss that idea, but seriously, how would you define a unit of length in an environment that is supposed to translate between multiple devices and media types? A "pixel" ma
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by pak 14y ago
Harvard has substantially revamped its financial aid in recent years. Families with income below $60k pay no tuition. Even going as high as $150k-$180k, the expected family contribution is lowered to about 10% of income.
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by pak 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_quota http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerus_clausus#Numerus_clausus... President Lowell of Harvard tried to impose a 12% quota on Jewish admits in the early 20th century, and also attempted to exclude
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How I became a pitchman for personal lube on Facebook(nbergus.com)
8 points by pak 14y ago|1 comments
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by pak 14y ago
"the average error was a staggering 24 minutes"-- The average is a terrible measure of centrality for data that is unbounded at one end, because one outlier (the 42 year off clock) skews the measure disproportionately; the median would be m
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by pak 14y ago
Nitpick--Audiotool is pretty much 100% Flash, except it also seems to load a Java applet to gain MIDI access. It would be mindblowing if it were HTML5. The UI alone (especially all the little details like the correct shadows on the knobs a
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Google's HTML5 synthesizer for Moog's 78th birthday(google.com)
192 points by pak 14y ago|91 comments
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by pak 14y ago
Agreed, color is the most immediately recognizable thing about an object and this is just as bad as when Lion washed out the folder colors. It looks more minimalist/modern but is less usable. Even low-saturation colors would be nice. You
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by pak 14y ago
I appreciate that these will scale better than images, but I never grokked the icons in the top right corner. To me, a repository isn't much like a "book", and I still remember hunting for the "log out" link in frustration before realizing
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by pak 14y ago
Why not use a random order for order fulfillment at each tick? No skewed incentives with that rule. If that creates too many concerns over security of the RNG, then use deterministic rotating ranks. Traders may be able to predict who they
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by pak 15y ago
As a nitpick, your JSON example uses single quoted keys, and it is mandatory for keys (and all strings) in JSON to use double quotes. Some parsers don't care, for instance if they are part of a full JS engine that can interpret beyond JSON
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by pak 15y ago
Well produced video and website, simple and honest presentation. Seems to build a lot on the appeal of Minecraft, but considering how popular Minecraft is that's probably a very smart move. Hope it works out! I'd try it out if there were
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by pak 15y ago
You're actually not too far off on your assessment of Delphi. Compared with all the .NET languages that sprang up to replace it, it's painfully verbose, inexpressive, and starved for community support. On the other hand, what it still does
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by pak 15y ago
Um, instead of using Python and the pexpect module, just use /usr/bin/expect by itself. The Expect language is very simple [1] and could cut this script down to less than 10 lines, if all you need to do is automate a couple transfers. The
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by pak 15y ago
But Arthur's level at that point is the hotel level; he never goes any deeper. He is at the exact same level when the second kick of hitting the water occurs, and for some reason that one wakes him up. He wouldn't experience any of the
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Wall St.'s Latest Campus Recruiting Crisis(dealbook.nytimes.com)
2 points by pak 15y ago|0 comments
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by pak 15y ago
I like this essay for using a brilliant analogy to illustrate a hard problem. Despite painting such a pretty picture, though, it winds up not really addressing any of the issues it brings up. What the essay proposes is the replacement of o

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